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Commander Play by Play #AtTheTower!

Welcome back everyone! This week we’re going to be doing something a little different by observing a play by play of Commander between four very varied decks, notably Ken’s Arcum Dagsson deck, Ben’s Kaho, Minamo Historian deck, my Horobi, Death’s Wail deck and Nathan’s Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas deck. While the power levels of the deck varied greatly, we all managed to get a few licks in before the inevitable happened.

As I had to transcribe manually, and my handwriting is the equivalent of chicken scratches under the influence of delirium tremens, some portions may be enhanced for your reading pleasure. With that said, on with the play by play!

T7
The penultimate turn, where Ken starts getting his lock pieces while we scramble in vain for answers.
Ken: (-1, 32) Play Karn, Silver Golem, add UUU from Gilded Lotus, turn into a creature and sacrifice it to get Mycosynth Lattice. Destroy Ben’s Islands, go.
Ben: (-1, 36) Play Grim Monolith off Sol Ring. Ken’s stuff untaps and he fetches Darksteel Forge to turn his entire board into one large, overpowered, indestructible mess. Ben concedes.
Nate: (-1, 36) Has lands blown up by Karn’s ability, vainly tries to push through some damage, but Ken fetches Nevinyrral’s Disk and untaps it with Voltaic Key.
This is done like dinner. I vainly peruse Wizard Tower’s website for available Null Rods. The one in stock exceeds my available store credit. Frustration on the stack, frustration resolves. I concede prior to my turn. Yes, a tuned Arcum deck does really, really dumb things. To be fair, so could Ben’s Kaho deck and so on. While it might not seem like the game was super fun, if any of us had had a better draw, and with some better decision making on my part, we might have survived that mess. It wasn’t a total loss though as we adjourned to a nearby eatery for Modern and Legacy testing.

Thanks for reading, and until next week, may annoying artifact based decks be met with a Stony Silence from your playgroup.

(Dave) Eastern Egg: Use the code “Null Rods” to get 10% off your MTG singles at wizardtower.com before December 3rd.